Hyderabad: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Thursday that Union HRD minister Smriti Irani made a sharmnak bayan (shameful statement) and lied about the facts relating the issue of suicide of research scholar Rohith Vemula.
He said that it was shameless on Ms Irani’s part to create a controversy over the caste of Rohith.
He also attacked Union minister Bandaru Dattatreya for writing to Ms Irani that the UoH had become a den of ‘casteist, extremist and anti-national’ activities because of an event organised by the ASA.
He asked how a central minister without conducting an inquiry make such a remark about the university.
Mr Kejriwal said discussing Ambedkar’s teachings cannot be casteist and nothing can be more national than forming a union in his name.
He said that the letters sent by the MHRD to the UoH with their subject mentioning action taken report on anti-national activities shows that even the ministry had concluded that anti-national activities are taking place in the university, based on the minister’s letter.
Continuing his attack on Ms Irani, he said that her name should be included in the FIR filed after Rohith’s suicide on the abetment of suicide case in which Mr Dattatr-eya has been named as one of the accused.
